How Hurricane Ida Got So Big So Fast

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August 31, 2021

Climate Change How Hurricane Ida Got So Big So Fast An eddy in the Gulf of Mexico and some heavy vapor played key roles By Robin Lloyd

Psychology Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness In some situations, don't pay so much attention By Alexander P. Burgoyne,David Z. Hambrick

Medicine Virus or Bacterium? Rapid Test Pinpoints Infection's Cause A generation of new tests could lessen overuse of antibiotics By Harini Barath

Sports How Paralympic Wheelchairs and Prostheses Are Optimized for Speed and Performance The engineering and designs vary widely from sport to sport and athlete to athlete By Sophie Bushwick

Pollution Plant Absorbs Toxic RDX Contamination Modified switchgrass can sop up weapons chemicals on military ranges By Susan Cosier

Conservation World's Largest Wildlife Bridge Could Save Mountain Lions An ambitious and popular project to connect the dangerously inbred Santa Monica mountain lions to a larger population is about to break ground By Craig Pittman

Agriculture In-Hive Sensors Could Help Ailing Bee Colonies The technology could help beekeepers reduce short-term losses, but it doesn't address long-term problems facing honeybees By Allison LaSorda

Weather Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida Theresa and Donald Dardar lived their whole lives in coastal Louisiana. They knew the "big one" might come someday. It did, and now everything is uncertain. By Duy Linh Tu | 05:41

Sociology The Pandemic Caused a Baby Bust, Not a Boom Birth rates in many high-income countries declined in the months following the first wave, possibly because of economic uncertainty By Tanya Lewis

Ethics Afghanistan's Terrified Scientists Fear Persecution Reprisals may come for their field of study, their ethnicity or involvement in international collaborations By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Behavior Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020 Were Horrifying We need radical change in order to address the crisis By Nora D. Volkow

Weather Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Is Influencing Storms Rising temperatures are increasing the hurricane risks to New Orleans and other coastal area By Stacy Morford,The Conversation US

Public Health U.S. Forces Are Leaving a Toxic Environmental Legacy in Afghanistan Legal and practical obstacles make it difficult to clean the burn pits and health-damaging chemicals that remain at military bases By Kelsey D. Atherton

Policy Fix Disaster Response Now Emergency management leaves out vulnerable groups and is poorly prepared for worsening climate-related disasters By THE EDITORS

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FROM THE ARCHIVE How to Evacuate Cities before Dangerous Hurricanes With new risk maps, authorities hope to avoid mass exoduses and blocked exits By Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio,Devika Subramanian,Robert M. Stein | October 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We humans have been using the atmosphere as a dumpster for more than 50 years now. We've been putting all of these waste gases, mostly from burning fossil fuels, into the atmosphere. And we have known for a very long time that these gases trap heat that largely goes into the ocean, thereby fueling these storms and also warming up the atmosphere. That's really the underlying disease, so to speak, that we need to treat." Jennifer Francis, atmospheric scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center

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